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  • byzxor@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st
    10 months

    Playing a bunch of Crusader Kings 3 and Civ V. Have half a mind to learn EU4 right as (relatively) EU5 is coming out for some reason. Also played some Lost Eidolons which is kinda fun, the between combat stuff isn’t very fun however.

    This past weekend Steam had a Darkest Dungeon 2 free weekend and I finally realised that those games weren’t roguelite deckbuilders (ohhh i hate those so much). So I finally tried them and they are…fine. The “I’m so edgy and dark” aesthetic gets stale really quickly, as does the slightly-but-deliberately-obtuse UX that appears in games that are supposed to be “difficult and unforgiving”.

Gaming@beehaw.orgbybyzxor@beehaw.org
11 months

itch.io now seemingly affected by same payment processor rules as Steam

bsky.app English

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with ‘nsfw’, ‘adult’, or ‘erotic’ so they don’t show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

So itch.io/games/nsfw still shows a few thousand titles, but using traditional adult tags to search within there shows ‘no titles’. (src)

And @itch.io is now denying payouts to the creators affected by the takedowns with no notice

“Accounts that are in violation of our terms are not elligible for payouts” (src)

There’s quite a lot of examples of these in various threads now.

It seems to get a bit weird though with some games still appearing on steam.

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia’s autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing) (src)

itch.io has been pretty open and transparent for their entire existence afaik and dropping all this without warning feels pretty bad

ETA: Here’s the official announcement

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    Gaming@beehaw.orgbybyzxor@beehaw.org
    11 months

    Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed

    www.gamingonlinux.com

    Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

    Newly added rule is:

    Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

    Diff of the new terms https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamworksDocumentation/commit/fddd59b5395cc3c1c74574650dbf5784612d0521

    :/ payment processors strike again (slippery slope etc)

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      • byzxor@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?
        1 year

        I’ve been trying to not use Steam on linux for a while now unless necessary (I have too many games there). GoG + Heroic keeps me pretty sane. Otherwise it’s Lutris for starting them (which I’ll agree is VERY clunky but you can get things done). I think we’re actually getting over the hill of “Linux gaming means Steam” that we’ve been on since the SteamDeck launched.

        While it’s working fine for now, what do I do if I’m offline and Steam decides this is one of those days offline mode doesn’t work? What if I get banned from Steam?

        This is a pretty valid-ish concern I would say. It’s one of the reasons I’m using GoG mainly now (which yes, still buying licences so similar concerns just maybe not as great or maybe I’m kidding myself)

      • byzxor@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 7th
        1 year

        Still working through the Dishonoreds. Almost done with 2 and I’m enjoying it WAYY more than I did back when it came out (and I gave up after 90 minutes).

        I would like to get back into Vic3 since I’m hearing lots of good things about 1.9 and the new DLC, but I tend to fizzle out of every Paradox game after 3 hours. Maybe that will change this time?

        Since getting an Anbernic something and really liking it, I’ve been trying to use my SteamDeck more but it’s just so not nice to hold or use for more than 30-45 minutes. Alas, I’ve been playing WarGroove (badly) on it.